My month in pictures

I'm not sure where I found this image, I think it may have been the CK website. Just recently I've been a little bit stuck, as if I don't know who I am some days, and other days I'm so sure of my own ideas, feelings and how I would like things to be done that I feel as though I want to throw everything I have away, paint our whole cottage white and start again! My style seems to be changing, but the space I live in, my funds and my ideas keep getting stuck, and with a heavy heart I look at the things I do have and wish I could pack them away and just live simply with what I need, but when they are packed away I miss them! maybe it's a new year thing but I seem to be spending my January days taking things to charity, sorting and tidying only to find the house bare and not quite right and so putting more stuff back in the empty places!

Any way what's this on the sofa?

For Christmas I was lucky enough to get both CK tins full of bright knitting and crochet yummy ness!

Our little cottage Christmas was so lovely, just the four of us, we went to church in the morning, we opened presents and ate and ate, we watched telly, and played games, later when the boys were tucked safely in their beds we ate cheese and biscuits and sat with candles dancing in the fireplace and I played making little bright granny squares, on boxing day we went to the beach, it was cold and windy but just as magical as the beach always is, strewn with shells and dancing foamy waves.

I ordered this bag in the January sale to hold my knitting and current cushion projects

And whilst I was there day dreamed about having a wall for caths digital map print wallpaper!

And saving pretty jars to make a tea light holder for a friend,

And a pixie hat, 1940s inspired for another friends' daughter, my model now he's a bit older wouldn't have his photo taken in a girls hat!

And look at these lucky finds in our local antique shop, this old chap now holds my crochet hooks and I love him,

and my little wine cork, so sweet now stands in our kitchen

And after Christmas when the year is new I have a birthday, I love having a January Birthday, most of my family give me money so I can shop in the January sales, this year I got, a few bits from Cath Kidston

Some postcards from a birthday day out

This little leather suitcase, I saw him tucked away so long ago but my purse was empty, he waited for me though, and now he sits by my spot holding vintage patterns that I love to just sit and look through,

And this which you may have seen on Vanessa's blog, I am so happy with my necklace, I love how the dog detaches to be worn all by hisself, and at how me this is considering I've never met Vanessa in real life!! Thank you so much Vanessa!

What a busy month and a bit I've had, I wish this hat fit me!

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